Robotic Farmers in Agriculture
Journal Title: Advances in Robotics & Mechanical Engineering - Year 2019, Vol 1, Issue 5
Abstract
Revolution of Robotic farmer is on the way, fruit picking machines are ready to roll into the fields and will replace human workers at one point of time. A Robot Farmer is just a one of the new technologies that will completely transform agriculture sector. Today’s agricultural technology helps farmers to plow and spray crops. In an improved automation and big data analytics with farming robot technology are pointing out to big benefits. Goldman Sachs estimates precision farming – the combination of agriculture and technology could be around $240 billion market by 2050. As per Euro monitor intersection of robotics, artificial intelligence, analytics and machines for precision farming is one of the top industry’s top opportunities. In Europe, Spanish company called Agrobot has developed a strawberry farming robot. It uses up to 24 robotic arms to pick fruit and is capable of autonomous navigation. In England, Dogtooth Technologies are developing its own series of autonomous robots capable of picking fruit. Dogtooth machines are proficient enough of autonomous navigation, locating and picking ripe fruit and grading its quality [1] (Figure 1). The increasing recognition of robotic weeders for specialty crops has grown – Specialty crops are vegetables like lettuce, broccoli, tomatoes and onions. These are not produced in mass like corn, soybeans and wheat. The reason for robotic weeders steams from two major issues. One is a deficiency of herbicides available for usage in specialty crops. Another issue; as a matter of fact hand-weeding has become more and more expensive. Without pesticides, growers have had to hire people to hand-weed vast fields. Hand weeding is very slow and increasing expensive, it can cost around $150-$30 per acre. That is one of the reasons some people look to robotic weeders. The robotic weeders are programmed to recognize a pattern and can differentiate between a plant and the soil. Although, they currently are having trouble to differentiate between a weed and a crop.
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Manu Mitra
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